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[resorocker]

[Athosan]

Coordinates Trip

[heybeesly]

[Athosan]

[Magus00]

[heybeesly]

[jonnymanic]

Just FYI, the co-ordinates are in degrees with decimal minutes, not decimal degrees or degrees-minutes-seconds format, so there is a chance that you entered them incorrectly.
Google Earth has a facility to display co-ordinates in degrees with decimal minutes, which is how I found what I found. Maybe what you need is a converter from decimal minutes to minutes and seconds.

And here's one I've just found
Might come in handy later. In the meantime, the co-ordinates in DMS are:
40deg 18m 18s N
74deg 41m 5s W

EDIT: On second reading of HeyBeesly's post, the GPS location is pretty much bang on target, I can find no fault with where he/she went.

[heybeesly]

[jonnymanic]

I've learned more about co-ordinates playing this game than I even did in geography at school or as an Air Cadet.
I like logic puzzles and the like because they let me learn a new skill or a new fact.
And now I know that you're a lady, HeyBeesly, I shall be more able to refer to you as such, should the need arise.

[jadestonewinnifer]

I thought I'd add something, even though this is proubably a creepy coincidence.

So I put N 40. 18. 18 W 74. 41. 5 into Google map search and got somewhere in Cancún Mexico



When you go to street view you can see it's near a playground



And am I losing my mind, or is that a guy in a suit in the background?



Well.. it sort of looks like one if you go to the street view. Or maybe a weird shadow and my brain is playing tricks on me. Oh well.

[G.I.R]

Oh my. D:

[Magus00]

EPIC COINCIDENCE.

I still say the garbage bag has what we need. Just sayin'.

[Megarain]

Everyman is following me!


Sorry, I'm really thrilled about it.

[resorocker]

I wish I wasn't so far away, I'd love to go on an ARG adventure trip >.< even if it is just to look in a garbage bag!

[heybeesly]

I'm currently preparing for a road trip (further south, so the opposite of where I'd need to go to check this out again), and won't be back in the area to check it out again until the end of the month.

I am totally willing to go back, but are we patient enough to wait that long? I could also send my brother, if he has the time/interest in this.

Thoughts?

Also, for what it's worth, the garbage bag really worried me. It looked more likely to contain something that would give me AIDS than something that had to do with the game, but that's just me. If I go back and try to open the bag, I'm bringing protective gloves. And probably hand sanitizer.

IMPORTANT EDIT:
After looking at johnnymanic's "translated" coordinates into a format I understand better, I looked them up on Google Maps. I walked through that area and searched that area, but it is NOT the same area as where I found the garbage bag/sunglasses/tire shrine. It's closer to where I found the Bobby Valentin CD, though I sincerely doubt that's important at all. See the map below:

"A" is where johnnymanic's "translated" coordinates go. "B" is approximately where I found the creepy garbage bag.



So, it doesn't look like the same place, though very very close to one another. Thoughts on this?